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2019’s grid storage additions fell for the first time since 2013. Why?

June 9, 2020 by IEA

Globally, new installations of grid storage fell year-on-year in 2019 for the first time since 2013. This IEA summary of the landscape is taken from its latest series of Tracking Clean Energy Progress reports. The IEA’s recommendations reflect the fact that grid storage is new and complex, needing changes to existing regulations and market rules that are unviable in the age of transition. The policy goal is to monetise the value of storage in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: australia, batteries, China, flexibility, grids, Japan, Korea, markets, policies, storage, UK, US

Allam Cycle carbon capture gas plants: 11% more efficient, all CO2 captured

May 25, 2020 by David Yellen

Globally, carbon capture is making precious little progress. Is the Allam Cycle natural gas power plant an important step forward? David Yellen at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center explains that, according to its designers, its energy conversion efficiency is 59%, 11% more than a standard combined-cycle gas turbine plant that’s carbon capture-equipped. It also captures 100% of the CO2, 10% more than the standard. NET Power plans to bring … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon Capture, Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: carbon, CCUS, cement, CO2, fertilisers, gas, industry, innovation, LNG, NETPower, US

Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades: thermoplastic, next-generation

May 13, 2020 by NREL

When wind turbine blades are decommissioned they are usually scrapped and thrown into landfill because they cannot be recycled. In the U.S. over the next four years alone that will be the fate of more than 8,000 blades. As wind installations increase so will that number. It's because most blades are constructed from epoxy or other thermoset resins. So National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are using a thermoplastic resin, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Renewables Tagged With: Arkema, blades, innovation, MarineEnergy, renewables, resin, rotors, thermoplastic, thermoset, turbines, US, wind

Why a Carbon Border Tax? Because existing tariffs favour dirty over clean imports

May 11, 2020 by Joseph Shapiro

Carbon border adjustments are carbon taxes imposed on carbon intensive imports that have not been carbon-taxed at source. It’s a good way to penalise “dirty” goods and remove any competitive advantage the exporter gains from not paying for its pollution. Regions across the world are trying to figure out the best way – how, when, if at all - to roll them out. But Joseph Shapiro, writing for the Energy Institute at Haas, points out that the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: carbontax, emissions, ETS, EU, Germany, Sweden, US

Free online Buildings Electrification training for workers on lockdown

May 7, 2020 by Stephen Mushegan and Claire McKenna

More than 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits during the lockdown. Among their number will be workers who, while sitting at home, could be trained up with useful skills they can use when the lockdowns end. You just need to identify where the big skills gaps in the economy are. Stephen Mushegan and Claire McKenna at RMI look at buildings refits and electrification, where like in most countries huge emissions reduction targets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Energy, HVAC Tagged With: buildings, California, Coronavirus, electrification, HeatPumps, lockdown, Maine, NewYork, training, US, Vermont

Designing the Covid-19 stimulus: what the 2008 crisis can teach us

April 23, 2020 by Fatih Birol

Policy makers around the world are hearing a lot of advice on how to design their stimulus packages. This comes from the IEA where Fatih Birol lays out five fundamental lessons we can learn from the stimulus packages that came out of the 2008 global financial crisis. His main headings are: Build on what you already have – and think big (e.g. feed-in tariffs, production tax credits); Choose technologies that are ready for the big time (e.g. wind, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Investment, Policies Tagged With: batteries, buildings, China, Coronavirus, efficiency, Europe, hydrogen, investment, Offshore Wind, policies, solar, stimulus, US, wind

Nuclear fusion: public-private pitch for pilot power plant in U.S.

April 8, 2020 by Peter Dunn

A working nuclear fusion plant has long been a dream of scientists. The “Sun in a box” would generate abundant low carbon energy with little waste and more safely than traditional existing nuclear (fission) plants. But the scientific, engineering and materials challenges are admittedly enormous. Meanwhile, other electricity generating technologies are getting cheaper, so will we ever need it? Nevertheless, a public-private collaboration in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: electricity, France, fusion, innovation, Nuclear, research, US

How much subsidy do EVs need to be competitive?

April 7, 2020 by Schalk Cloete

Despite a wide range of subsidies and incentives, battery electric vehicles (BEV) make up only 1.4% of new car sales in the U.S. That the effective battery cost is zero to the consumer doesn’t seem to be lifting that number any higher. Meanwhile, in Norway the percentage is a much more impressive 42%, but those subsidies and incentives are far higher: the effective battery cost is negative 385 $/kWh for a typical 60kWh battery pack, i.e. a very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: batteries, BEV, EVs, HEV, Norway, PHEV, subsidies, taxes, US

Utilities can help their central banks, “loaning” electricity during the slump

April 3, 2020 by Catherine Wolfram

The coronavirus slump is forcing governments around the world to inject large amounts of cash into the hands of consumers and businesses, until this is all over. In the U.S. it’s $2tn. Catherine Wolfram at the Haas School of Business suggests a way to cut that bill, easing the pressure on central bankers. Utilities (electricity, water, gas) should allow customers to defer payment (instead of using valuable bailout money to pay the utilities). The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: Coronavirus, electricity, Italy, policies, regulators, spain, US, utilities

“All new vehicles sold must be electric by 2030” but can your nation, state, city do it?

March 3, 2020 by James Conca

More and more nations, states and cities are announcing plans for the ramping up of EV adoption. Jim Conca takes a look at his home, Washington State in the U.S., where all new vehicles sold must be electric by 2030. He says the new rules imply his state will have 4 million EVs on the road by 2045, up from 52,000 today. He carefully crunches the numbers to see if this target is realistic. The good news is that grid capacity will only need to rise … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Transport and energy Tagged With: batteries, cobalt, EnelX, EVs, grids, lithium, prices, SmartCharging, transport, US

UK’s COP26 Presidency will be the first big test of its post-Brexit diplomatic skills

March 2, 2020 by Lucien Chabason and Lola Vallejo

November’s COP26 will arguably be the most important since the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015. By then, all signatory nations are required to submit their new and improved nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that set a credible pathway towards reducing their emissions. So far only the Marshall Islands, Suriname, and Norway have done so. Lucien Chabason and Lola Vallejo at IDDRI ask whether the UK teams behind their new COP26 President, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: adaptation, Brazil, Brexit, China, COP26, emissions, EU, finance, India, NDCs, transport, UK, US

Pumped Storage Hydropower 2.0: steel dams, underground, or 1-10MW modular

February 28, 2020 by NREL

Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) is one of the most cost-effective utility-scale options for grid energy storage. The U.S. has plants across the country, totalling over 20GW of capacity. Now the Dept of Energy (DoE) is backing four teams developing blue sky (water?!) ideas that should make the next generation of PSH even cheaper. In this article the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) tracks their progress so far. They include dams made of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: grids, hydro, innovation, pumped, solar, storage, US, wind

Even cycling Coal is losing money. Only “summer” coal makes sense in Texas, Louisiana

February 20, 2020 by Joseph Daniel

Joseph Daniel at the Union of Concerned Scientists says a detailed look at the U.S. data shows the days of coal plants being the baseload kings are numbered. The declining costs of wind, solar and gas are making coal look expensive. What’s more, increasing energy efficiency is flattening peak demand (and therefore prices), squeezing those periods when coal could rely on finding customers. That means coal plant owners that say they deserve support … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: Cleco, coal, efficiency, electricity, gas, Luminant, prices, solar, SWEPCO, US, wind, Xcel

200 – 400 Nuclear reactors to be decommissioned by 2040

February 11, 2020 by Denis Iurchak

Denis Iurchak has taken a close look at nuclear decommissioning. Globally, 447 nuclear reactors are in operation as of January 2020. Of those, nearly 70% are older than 30 years (25% are older than 40 years). The IEA says around 200 commercial reactors are to be shut down in the next two decades. On top of that, 182 reactors are already in permanent shutdown. This means that between 200 and 400 reactors are likely to be decommissioned by 2040, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: Canada, Createc, decommissioning, EDF, France, GEHitachi, Germany, GNSZerkon, Graphitech, Holtec, Japan, NorthStar, Nuclear, Orano, SKorea, SNCLavalin, spain, Tenex, UK, US, Veolia, Westinghouse

Carbon Tax: “laboratory” Europe shows U.S. it has no effect on aggregate jobs, growth

January 31, 2020 by Meredith Fowlie

The issue of carbon taxes is under debate in the U.S. Congress. The fear is a new tax will destroy jobs and hinder growth. Will it? Meredith Fowlie at the Energy Institute at Haas says the U.S. should see Europe as a very useful carbon tax laboratory experiment: half the countries have some sort of tax, the other half don’t. She’s pulled together evidence to answer the simple question: does a carbon tax affect aggregate employment and growth. Her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies Tagged With: Canada, carbontax, coal, Europe, gas, GDP, growth, jobs, oil, policies, US

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